Embrace Families Community Based Care
The mission of Embrace Families Community Based Care (CBC) is to ensure the safety, permanency and well-being of children formally in the child welfare system through foster care, adoption, family reunification and prevention services.


Embrace Families CBC proudly serves as the state-designated lead agency for child welfare services in Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties, Florida. The organization works to prevent child abuse and neglect, to strengthen families, and to care for our community’s children in foster care. Since 2004, Embrace Families CBC has designed a continuum of care which is family-centered, strengths-based, and community-driven. Our goals are to ensure safety, provide permanency, and maintain the well-being of the children served by child welfare. Our objectives are to divert the need for children to enter formal out-of-home care, and to improve outcomes for those children who must formally enter care.
Our core programs include: foster home licensing, diversion/family support services, out-of-home services (foster care), kinship services, youth services, and adoption. Additionally, Embrace Families CBC oversees Keys to Independence, a pioneering statewide project dedicated to increasing the number of teens in foster care with driver’s licenses.
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For information on the financials of Embrace Families CBC, click here. For lead agency public disclosures, click here.